Charles L. (Charles Latimer) Marson

Born in 1859, Charles Latimer Marson was an English Anglican priest and author whose work ranged across poetry, biography, and religious writing. Project Gutenberg lists him as the author of Hugh, Bishop of Lincoln, and modern reference material on his life describes him as a vivid, unconventional churchman with strong literary interests.

Marson is also closely linked with the beginnings of the English folk-song revival. Accounts of his life note that he worked with Cecil Sharp in Somerset and helped connect Sharp with singers and local material during the important Hambridge collecting period. That role has kept his name alive not only in literary circles but also in histories of English traditional music.

He died in 1914. Although not a household name now, he stands out as one of those energetic late-Victorian and Edwardian figures whose religious work, writing, and cultural curiosity all fed into one another.